moving "macports1.0" to ${prefix}

[Blair Zajac]

Landon Fuller wrote:
> 
> On Aug 16, 2007, at 02:15, Anders F Björklund wrote:
> 
>>
>> For MacPorts 1.6, it might be a good idea to consider moving 
>> "macports1.0" from the current @TCL_PACKAGE_DIR@ directory to the 
>> @prefix_expanded@/share/macports/Tcl directory, in order to make the 
>> MacPorts installation self-contained within the designated prefix ?
>>
>> If the "macports1.0" module needs to be in the system's Tcl package 
>> directory in order for other (inferior) software to find it, then 
>> can't this be accomplished by setting up a symbolic link ? e.g. 
>> /Library/Tcl/macports1.0 -> /opt/local/share/macports/Tcl/macports1.0
> 
> I'll register a "please, no!". The whole point of putting macports in 
> /Library/Tcl/macports1.0 was to support "inferior" software that needs 
> to be able to find the system's macports installation, regardless of 
> ${prefix}.

What software is this?  The use case for having multiple MacPorts is fairly common.

We have three +1's for making the change.  Should we have a vote?

Regards,
Blair